1. Pursue on sects. 114-117 studies similar to those suggested above (sects. 88-94) for the Levant wares. For the character of the Baltic trade at present consult the Statesman’s Year-Book, index, Norway or Sweden. The history of the trade in amber may be made an interesting study, as the article has been an object of commerce since prehistoric times.
2. Origin of the Hanseatic League. [Zimmern, pp. 11-29.]
3. What place does Lübeck hold in the commerce of modern Germany? [Statesman’s Year-Book, Germany, last table in section on commerce.]
4. What effect may the Elbe-Trave Canal, opened June 16, 1900, have upon the future of the city? [See U. S. Consular reports and newspapers about that date.]
5. Contrast the organization of the Hanseatic League and of the Venetian empire.
6. Report in detail on the organization of the League, and its weaknesses. [Zimmern, 202-220.]
7. Write an essay on the life in a Hanseatic factory. [Zimmern, 137-147, Bergen; 179-201, London.]
8. Compare the Hanseatic factory with an Indian trading post. [Descriptions of such posts can be found in histories of the Hudson’s Bay Company.]
9. Write a report on the rise and fall of Bruges or of Antwerp as a commercial center. [Encyclopedia.]
10. Write a report on one of the following topics in English medieval commerce: